Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr.

Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. (20 June 1930-) was a Ku Klux Klan member who was one of the perpetrators of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.

Biography
Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 20 June 1930, the son of a notorious racist. Blanton joined the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist terrorist group during the 1950s, and Blanton, Bobby Frank Cherry, Herman Frank Cash, and Robert Edward Chambliss conspired to fight against the Civil Rights movement by bombing the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church. On 15 September 1963, they placed fifteen sticks of dynamites under the steps of the church, killing four schoolgirls and injuring 22 people. In 2001, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.